Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (Payments)

Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value\-added services for collectors worldwide. We grade, authenticate, vault, and sell millions of record\-setting collectibles, all while modernizing and digitalizing the process to further our mission of helping collectors pursue their passions. We’re always on the lookout for talented people to join our growing team. Our services span collectible trading cards, autographs, comic books, coins, video games, event tickets, and memorabilia. Our subsidiaries include PSA, PCGS, Beckett, SGC, and Card Ladder. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated millions of items. We employ more than 3000 people across our headquarters in Santa Ana, California and offices in New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and France. As part of our interview process, we request that candidates have their cameras on during video interviews. This helps foster meaningful conversation and allows us to create an experience that closely resembles our standard working environment. Certain interview steps may take place by phone. For remote roles, and at our discretion, candidates may be asked to participate in an on\-site interview as part of the final stages of the process. We understand there may be occasional circumstances requiring accommodation and are happy to discuss them as needed. Your recruiter will be able to clarify expectations and answer any questions you have. **About the Role** We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team — a critical engineering domain responsible for building, scaling, and evolving the payments infrastructure that powers every transaction across the Collectors ecosystem. This team owns the full lifecycle of payment capabilities: integrating with and abstracting across multiple payment gateway providers (including Stripe and PayPal), supporting payment methods spanning credit card, ACH, and digital wallets, and building both the APIs that downstream services depend on and the web application experiences that customers and internal tools rely on. You will work across backend APIs and modern frontend surfaces, partnering with product, design, and cross\-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure payment experiences This is a high\-impact, high\-visibility role. Payments is the financial backbone of our marketplace — touching grading order checkout, vault and consignment transactions, partner payouts, and customer wallet top\-ups. You will have direct influence over architecture decisions, gateway integrations, and the quality bar for everything that ships. We believe there is significant value in onsite partnership and team collaboration, and candidates within 1\-hour commuting distance of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time. Additional details will be discussed during the recruiting process. **What You’ll